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September 2009
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How to repair a corrupted Blackfish SQL database
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– We use Blackfish SQL as the database for our discussion forums. Although the java version (formerly known as JDataStore) supports mirroring and fail-over, the .NET version has never been certified for that functionality. Sometimes when we have hardware failures in our data center, our database ends ...
May 2009
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New "home page" header links on EDN
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– We've introduced a new logo for EDN as part of our standard header. With that minor redesign, I had a "duh!" moment and realized we could also create a "home page" link for the specific EDN application you're currently using, such as Blogs, Chat, Discussion Forums, CodeCentral, Member Services, ...
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Meet me at Delphi Live!
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– As I mentioned in this blog post, I'll be attending Delphi Live this week. If you want to catch up with me, probably the best place to find me is in Embarcadero area of the exhibit hall on Thursday from approximately 1:15pm-2:30pm and 6:45-7:30pm (at the "Beer Bash" before the ...
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Rehashing CodeCentral hash values
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– Shortly after my blog post about finally displaying MD5 hash values for CodeCentral downloads, Jorge Almeida asked about SHA1 hash values instead because of the known collision problems with MD5. So, we now are displaying not only MD5 hash values but also SHA1 hash values for each CodeCentral ...
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See you at Delphi Live!
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– I'll be attending Delphi Live! in San Jose, California May 13 – 16, 2009. Thomas Pfister is staying nearby in Capitola, California and has graciously offered to chauffeur me to and from the conference in the handy-dandy convertible he'll have while visiting. Since I'm completely buried in EDN work ...
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MD5 hash on CodeCentral downloads
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– All internal stored downloads in CodeCentral now have an MD5 hash value, so you can use that value to validate your download. In the Details section of the download, you’ll see something like this: Updated on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:26:55 GMTOriginally uploaded on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:51:10 GMTMD5 ...
April 2009
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What’s in a named list?
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– We're working on "named lists" for QualityCentral. This will allow any logged-in user to create a list of QualityCentral (QC) reports, name the list, and share it with varying visibility rules, such as private, public, invitation only, etc. I want to get your feedback on some of the options ...
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Powerful but easy paging with ASP.NET MVC
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– Since I started following the public beta in mid-2008, I've been eagerly awaiting the release of ASP.NET MVC. Now that ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is released, I've been diving into it more, and fiddling with some DataSnap tooling to quickly generate the strongly typed models MVC works likes best. The EDN ...
January 2009
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The Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
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– I was just having a Skype chat with Jonathan Benedicto, one of the developers on the Developer Network team, and he pointed out a very valuable and relevant link to me regarding the "Top 25 most dangerous programming errors" all software developers should address in their code. This isn't a funny ...
December 2008
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Blog server maintenance scheduled for December 22, 2008
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– After 11am Pacific Time, our blog server will be temporarily down as it gets moved to our new network infrastructure. We expect the down time to be 5 to 30 minutes. We apologize for the inconvenient timing, but we're in the middle of migrating all our servers to our new ...
October 2008
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Recent improvements on the Developer Network
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– This is a quick post to point out some cool new features on the Developer Network. Find everything you're looking for, fast! We recently launched a major upgrade to our search engine. In addition to all the features you'd expect from a robust search engine, it also adds support for ...
August 2008
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The story behind our new algorithms discussion forum
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– Back in December of 2004, several community members had a conversation in our Delphi non-technical newsgroup, wishing for a general-purpose algorithms group on our server. With the launch of our public beta of our new discussion forums, we finally created that long-awaited algorithms forum. The ...
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Tips on using our web sites
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– The Internet Services team has been delivering lots of new functionality lately, and while it's not feasible to document every improvement we make on every system, I've been attempting to highlight some of the new things we've been doing, and also pointing out some of the existing features people ...
July 2008
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Come work with us!
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– We have an immediate opening for a web master here at Embarcadero. Our web master must have content management experience, graphic and web page design experience (sample work is required), and great communication and organizational skills. This is a full-time position for someone to reside in the ...
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A new old feature for CodeCentral
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– A few years ago, we migrated CodeCentral from a Delphi CGI application to an ASP.NET application. Most of the features in the old version were replicated to the new version, but one that I really missed was the new upload shortcut from the CodeCentral matrix on the home page. I ...
